PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Scientific Method, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: gerald goldberg

Document Summary

Because they don"t know what to do and make them believe that they are perfect. They turn out to be violent or racist. Need to know the detail time and place. Review of key points: questions: experimental research involved manipulation of an independent variable to determine its effect on a dependent variable. Advantages of scientific approach: clarity and precision. 2: relative intolerance of error, helps us understand the limits of the truth of statements. Independent is free to be varied by experimenter, depend is meant to depend on manipulation sof the independent variable. Variations in designing experiments: using participants as own control (example before and after studies, using more than one independent variable (looking for interactions, using more than one dependent variable. Experimental research: main advantage: permits conclusions about cause and effect, main disadvantage: artificial/contrived situations, cannot be used for some research questions for practical and/ethical reasons.